Search Results: Titles starting with V from Jacket and Cloth

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904. Hardcover. See description. DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth with gilt and white outlined decoration to front and spine. Gilt upper text block edge. Illustrated with 100 guarded and captioned colour illustrations by Menpes Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good+: Light wear to corners, edges and lightly bruised spine ends. Fine scratch to rear cloth. Very light sunning to spine. Tightly bound with very lightly toned intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Very lightly age toned unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages x, 222. Size: 8vo 22.5cm by 16cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and will require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you with the additional charges. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.

London: Addey & Co, 1853. Hardcover. See description. 2nd Edition. DESCRIPTION: Quarto, blue and grey cloth, spine and front cover stamped in gilt, (frontispiece and four inserted plates; original unprinted tissue-guards intact), all edges gilt, illustrated with five full-page mounted color plates (reproducing water-colours by Wehnert, Absolon, Lee and Weir). Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Front and back boards are clean but worn and corns and top of spine. Back board coming away from spin at lower end. Endpaper cracked. Pages clean with a few minor tears with a few pages loose at their lower end Pages 108. BOOK RESUME: Water-Colour Drawings by Edward Wehnert, John Absolon, William Lee, and Harrison Weir, Members of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

London: Frederick Muller, 1958. Hardcover. See description. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red leather, gilt lettering to spine. Gilt pages edges on all sides, decorative endpapers, 24 Illustrations Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Clean bright leather boards with minor wear at top and bottom of spine and corners. Very tight binding. Clean intact endpapers with clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Na. Pages (x), 220. AUTHOR: The author tells of one of the great engineering achievements in communications, the laying of the submarine cable, from the first crude attempts in 1858 to the development of the telephone cable in 1956. He covers the pioneering days of Cyrus Field, Morse, the scientists, Lord Kelvin, Oliver Heaviside when fabulous fortunes depended on what was little better than a thread beneath the ocean, to todays scientific frontiers within the laboratory.